Mousedown event on DIV - help urgent

Venkat Eswaran

hi all, I am creating a javascript puzzle game. I need to capture the mouuse down event on div tag only. we have mouusedoen event for document, button, link, i need for DIV tag. how to do?. I want to call a fuction on the mouse down event. If possib;e please send me a code for that. Thanks in advance. Venky

Mike Ellison

How about just using the onmousedown event for the div? Here's a sample:

<html>
<body>
<div id="myDiv1" onmousedown="alert('myDiv1 mousedown');">This is myDiv1.</div>
<br /><br />
<div id="myDiv2" onmousedown="alert('myDiv2 mousedown');">This is myDiv2.</div>
</body>
</html>